[nerdponx]

I think a lot of this comes down to a broader difference between Mac/Windows Docker Desktop and "plain" Docker on Linux. The former is actually backed by a VM, so a lot of the painless simplicity comes from having a true virtual machine involved, rather than just a layer of namespacing.

A lot of people are in here complaining about how Docker is not reproducible enough. But reproducibility of image builds is a matter of diminishing returns, and there are other problems to worry about, like the ones you are pointing out.

Speaking of which, it's probably good to get in the habit of installing some Linux OS in a VM and trying to run your container images inside that (with "plain" Docker, no inner VM), before pushing it to your cloud host and waiting for it to fail there.